There was, way back in the mists of... 2007... a recurrent meme among several comics art blogs. Reclaiming characters from their owners, I guess it could be broadly described as... people were reimagining abused characters (chiefly Supergirl) as artistic call-and-response various places, chiefly LiveJournal. In the aftermath of that, I did a similar thing on old messageboard The Engine, called REMAKE/REMODEL. They were embraced as technical exercises, bits of fun, ways to get the brain moving. I think most people's favourite was the dear late Mike Wieringo's wondrous retro-aristo Buck Rogers...

I thought it might be an interesting thing to bring back here. So, once a week, I'll call a character, and you art types here can post images of your reinterpretation of that character. Photography and digital art is also fine, before anyone asks.

The point is REinterpretation: remake/remodel.

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Hahaha I am a bastard. From BLUE BEETLE #9, in 1941;

Jack Castle was both a drunk and assistant to a mad scientist. He is knocked unconscious by the mad doctor, so Castle would not reveal the nature of the doctor's experiments to Elsa, the doctor's niece. Castle's brain is removed and then placed into the body of a gorilla. When he awakens from his operation, he seeks revenge. First, he kills the mad doctor, and then goes after his assistants hoping to be cured of his affliction.

I include no art in this. If you search out art from Google, I will delete it.

I give you nothing but the above to work on.

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Your task, as ever, is to re-invent that into something a 21st Century audience could enjoy.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with, but bear in mind this is an ART thread. No pen-portraits. This is ART ONLY. Posting just a bunch of text, or a scribble and a vast number of words, will get the thread closed and your account banned.

Agreed; in a lesser thread, this could become just repetitious, but with a little of the old "Whitechapel" creative imaging techniques, I see a massive amount of possible directions coming from the brain trust here. Let us have it!

Posting mid-week, hopefully, as we have house-guests, including a 7 year old who will ask constant annoying questions like "Why are you drawing that gorilla with a whiskey bottle?" My answer, of course, will be "Because a magical man from the internet told me to, now piss off!"

@Awesomecake: love the look of your Gorilla... he a working class hero!

A gorilla with a mans brain ignites all kinds of wonderbursts in my head. Just doing a few roughs while my brain chews on this idea... here's one of em. Don't worry about the skulls... it will all make sense in my next one :P